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Friday, March 28, 2008

Three Things To Do

Status of my life: Put SHADOWS up for critique, I hope they don't tear it apart. Wait, I do hope they tear it apart, that's how it gets better!

I've been going over my notes from the conference last week, and I found these three gems. I can't even remember who said them, one of the presenters or something.

The Best Three Things To Do as a Writer:1. Don't hurry.2. Don't worry.3. Don't stop.

I'm pretty impatient, so the "don't hurry" rule really struck me. The publishing world is super-uber-slow.

I've been known to stay up nights worrying, so #2 is familiar. I'm working on it. I also got some good advice about things I can't control in the publishing world, I'll post those later.

I don't think I could stop, even if I wanted to. A friend of mine asked me why I had to write stories. I told her that there were things in my head that I had to get out. She looked at me like I was crazy, which I probably am! :) But, sadly, it's true. Some things just have to be written down.

1 comment:

Hi. Elana. That was some great advice. I was reading Jenny Rappaport's blog and saw you'd made a comment over there. When I saw Elana, I thought how many Elana's can there be that spell their name with an a, and sure enough, I was right. It was you.

It was fun to meet you at the conference. Sounds like your writing is coming along. That's great you won 3rd place in the contest.

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